Fairness for Everyone
Wednesday, Apr 11, 2018
Originally published in the Winnipeg Free Press
No one should work full time and have to live in poverty. But, that is exactly what is happening to thousands of Manitoba workers because our minimum wage is a poverty wage. Having a job and working full time should be a path out of poverty, not a poverty trap, plain and simple.
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